Fall of eastern DRC city to rebels puts civilians at risk - HRW
15 december 2025 - 09:35:27Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwandan forces and M23 armed group that captured the city of Uvira in South Kivu [...] Full text...
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwandan forces and M23 armed group that captured the city of Uvira in South Kivu [...] Full text...
Dialogue is ‘not naïve – it’s necessary’ as global divisions deepen - UN chief
15 december 2025 - 08:51:37Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - The 11th Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations opened in Riyadh on Sunday [...] Full text...
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In Baghdad, Guterres hails ‘new chapter’ in Iraq as UN mission draws to a close
14 december 2025 - 07:49:04Baghdad, Iraq (PANA) - The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) is ending operations this month but support for [...] Full text...
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Global atrocity risks rising, warns new UN adviser on genocide prevention
12 december 2025 - 15:34:07Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world is witnessing an alarming erosion of respect for international law, with conflicts increasingly targeting [...] Full text...
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Can dialogue heal a fractured world? A UN-led alliance is making the case
12 december 2025 - 15:10:18Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and [...] Full text...
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WHO expert group reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism
12 december 2025 - 07:43:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A World Health Organisation (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between [...] Full text...
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Five climate trailblazers: UNEP’S 2025 Champions of the Earth
11 december 2025 - 19:36:19Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Global temperatures rises are projected to surpass 1.5°C (2.7°F) within the next decade, underscoring the urgency [...] Full text...
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AUC Chairperson urges restraint amid escalating tensions in the Great Lakes Region
11 december 2025 - 13:05:42Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has expressed “deep concern” [...] Full text...
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US signs MOUs with Uganda and Lesotho on health
11 december 2025 - 07:51:53Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States on Wednesday signed five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with [...] Full text...
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UNICEF warns of deepening global crisis for children
11 december 2025 - 07:37:29New York, US (PANA) - Children caught in conflict, disasters, economic turmoil and other emergencies face unprecedented dangers as funding shortfalls force lifesaving projects to close.The warning comes from UN Children’s [...] Full text...
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Social media: Age-related bans won’t keep kids safe, UNICEF warns
10 december 2025 - 19:11:30Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A social media ban for children under 16 came into effect in Australia on Wednesday, marking [...] Full text...
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Ghana deports three Israeli travellers in retaliation for similar action against Ghanaians
10 december 2025 - 16:59:13Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The Government of Ghana on Wednesday announced the deportation of three Israeli nationals who arrived in [...] Full text...
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International Contact Group for the Great Lakes raises alarm over escalation of fighting in DRC's South Kivu
10 december 2025 - 07:04:08Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The International Contact Group for the Great Lakes (ICG), chaired by Germany, has raised alarm [...] Full text...
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UN seeks $1 billion for ‘first-respondent fund’ in emergencies
09 december 2025 - 19:45:01New York, US (PANA) - Countries rallied at UN Headquarters on Tuesday to shore up a key humanitarian fund that [...] Full text...
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Burkina Faso junta restores death penalty - HRW
09 december 2025 - 08:00:31Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The military junta in Burkina Faso has adopted a bill restoring the death penalty nearly [...] Full text...
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How stablecoins can improve payments and global finance (IMF Blog by Tobias Adrian, Marcello Miccoli, Nobuyasu Sugimoto)
08 december 2025 - 08:16:37Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Despite having a market capitalisation of about 10 percent of Bitcoin, stablecoins are growing in influence [...] Full text...
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'DRC, Rwanda will need to confront civilian protection, lack of accountability after Washington Accords'
05 december 2025 - 08:00:19Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity signed on Thursday by the Democratic Republic of Congo [...] Full text...
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African football legends join forces to give a red card to polio
05 december 2025 - 07:27:19Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Six African football legends are urging the continent to unite and step up efforts to vaccinate [...] Full text...
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UN and partners back new measures to help millions move from vulnerability to opportunity
05 december 2025 - 06:58:47Doha, Qatar (PANA) - A major UN meeting in Doha wrapped up on Thursday with a renewed drive to help [...] Full text...
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Arab region pushed to limits by climate extremes as 2024 smashes heat records
04 december 2025 - 11:36:14Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on [...] Full text...
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Cold, displaced and in darkness, Ukrainian civilians brace for another winter of war
03 december 2025 - 17:30:02Kharkiv city, Ukraine (PANA) - As Ukraine enters its fourth winter under full-scale invasion, millions of civilians face renewed hardship [...] Full text...
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US says it is taking 'decisive action' to combat 'egregious' anti-Christian violence in Nigeria and globally
03 december 2025 - 17:29:29Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States said on Wednesday that it is taking “decisive action” against governments or [...] Full text...
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Developing countries’ debt outflows hit 50-year high during 2022-2024 - World Bank reveals
03 december 2025 - 06:46:15EMBARGOED: NOT FOR PUBLICATION, BROADCAST, OR TRANSMISSION UNTIL WEDNESDAY, 3 DECEMBER, 2025, AT 2:30 PM LONDON Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - [...] Full text...
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Millions of jobs at risk in Asia-Pacific as AI adoption surges in wealthy nations
02 december 2025 - 20:27:23Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Millions of jobs across Asia could be at risk as the AI industry booms at the [...] Full text...
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Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline gets greenlight amid environmental concerns ((News Feature) by Kennedy Abwao - PANA Correspondent
02 december 2025 - 17:00:15Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - The ink has not dried on the East African Court of Justices ruling giving the US$4 [...] Full text...
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HIV and AIDS: Despite funding setbacks, prevention sees progress
02 december 2025 - 07:14:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Pooja Mishra’s health kept worsening until she began treatment for HIV at age 19, two years [...] Full text...
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UPDATE: ECOWAS chairman Julius Maada Bio holds 'constructive' discussions with Guinea-Bissau junta leaders
01 december 2025 - 17:36:04Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (PANA) - The Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra [...] Full text...
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ECOWAS chairman Julius Maada Bio arrives in Guinea-Bissau to meet coup leaders
01 december 2025 - 14:09:11Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (PANA) - The Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra [...] Full text...
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COP30: African negotiators see mixed signals
01 december 2025 - 09:54:51Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), [...] Full text...
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Women demonstrate against gender-based violence committed by men
30 november 2025 - 15:55:21New York, US (PANA) - For three years, thousands of angry messages poured into American actress Azie Tesfai’s phone from [...] Full text...
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African Water Facility Governing Council adopts new five-year strategy to boost water security efforts
30 november 2025 - 08:43:18Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Governing Council of the African Water Facility has adopted the organisation’s new five-year strategy, marking [...] Full text...
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UPDATE: ECOWAS suspends Guinea-Bissau after coup
28 november 2025 - 12:19:36Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Guinea-Bissau from all decision-making bodies [...] Full text...
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Guinea-Bissau's ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló arrives in Senegal
28 november 2025 - 08:41:16Dakar, Senegal, (PANA) – Guinea-Bissau's ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló arrived "safe and sound" in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on [...] Full text...
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Decisive turning point: Setting global industry on a fairer, greener path towards economic growth
28 november 2025 - 08:01:39Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (PANA) - The world moved closer to ensuring that industrial development is a net positive for people [...] Full text...
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Minorities are being stifled and rights repressed in a growing number of autocracies, denounces Volker Türk
27 november 2025 - 13:07:25Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - "In a growing number of autocracies, minorities are being stifled, their rights, their identity and their [...] Full text...
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Countries, experts agree on 10-year Africa Health Workforce Agenda
27 november 2025 - 10:39:29Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - African countries have reached consensus on the priority actions, commitments and milestones that will shape [...] Full text...
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WHO Africa endorses roadmap for safeguarding communities in health emergency operations
27 november 2025 - 10:22:16Pretoria, South Africa (PANA) - The World Health Organization (WHO) in the African region, Member States and partners have agreed [...] Full text...
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Violence against women: UN sheds light on global femicide crisis, digital abuse
26 november 2025 - 07:28:14New York, US (PANA) - For three years, thousands of angry messages poured into American actress Azie Tesfai’s phone from a [...] Full text...
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Over 600 million children exposed to violence at home, UNICEF warns
26 november 2025 - 07:19:13New York, US (PANA) - More than one in four children globally – around 610 million – live with mothers [...] Full text...
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Industrial policy can lift productivity—but comes with risks and trade-offs: IMF Blog by Shekhar Aiyar, Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi
26 november 2025 - 07:11:14Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Governments across both advanced and emerging market economies have increasingly rolled out new support for [...] Full text...
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UN warns against exploitation of AI for 'purely political or economic purposes'
24 november 2025 - 16:36:55Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The threats posed by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to several human rights, including privacy, political participation, [...] Full text...
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Cameroonian opposition figure Issa Tchiroma Bakary arrives in Gambia
24 november 2025 - 11:43:51Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambia’s government has confirmed the arrival and hosting of Cameroonian opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakar,y on [...] Full text...
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One in five children living in poverty in developing countries
20 november 2025 - 16:24:56New York, US (PANA) - At least 417 million children — more than one in five — living in low- [...] Full text...
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Policy actions can reinforce growth progress in many G20 economies: IMF Blog byNicolas Fernandez-Arias, Shushanik Hakobyan
20 november 2025 - 07:41:47Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Since the G20’s foundational Pittsburgh conference in 2009, progress toward its goal of strong, sustainable, [...] Full text...
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Primate conservationists in Virunga Park upbeat over fresh effort to end cross-border biodiversity loss (By Kennedy Abwao PANA Correspondent)
20 november 2025 - 07:34:00Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – A sombre mood engulfed the small Island of Ngamba in Uganda as conservationists led a funeral [...] Full text...
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Steady growth amid fiscal challenges (IMF Blog by Abebe Aemro Selassie, Amadou Sy)
19 november 2025 - 08:19:36Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Over the past six months the realignment of global priorities and increasingly turbulent external conditions [...] Full text...
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World Bank Group appoints Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer
18 november 2025 - 13:09:55Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The World Bank Group has announced the appointment of Paschal Donohoe as Managing Director and [...] Full text...
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Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles eliminate measles and rubella
18 november 2025 - 07:34:37Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - In a significant public health achievement, Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles have eliminated measles and rubella, [...] Full text...
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Disasters have cost agriculture over $3 trillion in 30 years.
15 november 2025 - 05:22:19Rome, Italy (PANA) - Behind rising temperatures and a succession of extreme events, entire sectors of global food production are [...] Full text...
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UN Security Council lays ground in race for next Secretary-General
15 november 2025 - 05:04:21New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council met on Friday for its annual debate over how it operates [...] Full text...
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Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
13 november 2025 - 18:50:42Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in [...] Full text...
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Hurricane Melissa: Relief efforts intensify as damage across Caribbean grows
12 november 2025 - 16:21:26Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Two weeks after Hurricane Melissa tore through the Caribbean, governments and aid agencies are still struggling [...] Full text...
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Rights group says trial of ex-DRC warlord 'important step' for justice
12 november 2025 - 08:39:44Paris, France (PANA) - The trial of Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former rebel leader and former minister in the Democratic Republic [...] Full text...
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Gates Foundation announces new commitment for smallholder farmers on the frontlines of extreme weather
09 november 2025 - 18:38:24Belém, Brazil (PANA) — The Gates Foundation has announced a new commitment to advancing climate adaptation, helping smallholder farmers build [...] Full text...
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UNHCR fears halt to refugee returns in Africa due to lack of funding
09 november 2025 - 08:17:45Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - More than 42,000 refugees have been able to voluntarily return home this year in West and [...] Full text...
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COP30 kicks off with urgent call to deliver on climate promises and scale up finance (By Felipe de Carvalho, UN News)
09 november 2025 - 08:12:32Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Thousands of diplomats and climate experts are heading to Belém, in Brazil’s Amazon, for COP30 – [...] Full text...
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COP30 Climate Conference: What to know
08 november 2025 - 12:38:18Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Next week, the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP30) will begin in Belém, Brazil. The [...] Full text...
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In Brazil, Guterres calls for ‘fair, fast and final’ shift to clean energy
07 november 2025 - 18:54:38Belém, Brazil (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels [...] Full text...
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New Brazil-led fund aims to put forest protection at the heart of climate action
07 november 2025 - 07:30:27Belém, Brazil (PANA) - Tropical forests, vital allies in the fight against climate breakdown, are vanishing at an alarming rate. [...] Full text...
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Battlefields to wastelands: UN warns conflicts are destroying ecosystems worldwide
07 november 2025 - 07:22:37New York, US (PANA) - From Gaza to Ukraine and beyond, conflict has caused widespread death and destruction, but it [...] Full text...
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Doha summit ends with call to turn social pledges into action
06 november 2025 - 15:53:42Doha, Qatar (PANA) - The Second World Summit for Social Development concluded in Doha on Thursday with calls for countries [...] Full text...
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Doha Social Summit: Businesses, civil society walk side by side for fairer futures
06 november 2025 - 08:00:28Doha, Qatar (PANA) - Civil society networks and private sector leaders crossed paths in the buzzing corridors of the Qatar [...] Full text...
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Doha Social Summit: Path to fairer societies begins in the classroom
05 november 2025 - 08:00:44Doha, Qatar (PANA) - Education took centre stage on the opening day of the Second World Summit for Social Development [...] Full text...
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South Africa calls for support for Hurricane Melissa victims
05 november 2025 - 07:17:30Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The South African government on Tuesday expressed its deepest condolences and solidarity with the [...] Full text...
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World leaders adopt Doha declaration to boost efforts on social development
04 november 2025 - 15:48:10Doha, Qatar (PANA) - Against a backdrop of escalating geopolitical tension and widening social divides, global leaders at the Second [...] Full text...
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New climate pledges do little to correct global warming projection, UN warns
04 november 2025 - 15:39:43Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Available new climate pledges by governments have only slightly lowered global temperature rise over the course [...] Full text...
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AU Summit outlines roadmap to exploitation of US$2.8 trillion natural wealth
04 november 2025 - 07:13:58Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) – The African Union Commission (AUC) has urged countries in the continent to stop “exporting jobs elsewhere” [...] Full text...
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Famine tightens grip on Sudan, with civilians trapped and aid blocked
03 november 2025 - 20:17:28Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sudan’s hunger crisis has deepened further, with new UN-backed analysis confirming that famine is underway in [...] Full text...
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As global crises deepen, leaders in Doha urge shift from promises to action
03 november 2025 - 15:17:20Doha, Qatar (PANA) - As global challenges deepen, governments, civil society and international partners convened in Doha on Monday to [...] Full text...
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Impunity for attacks on journalists has a chilling effect on society
02 november 2025 - 16:25:01Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Latin America and the Caribbean continues to be the region with the highest number of murders [...] Full text...
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Workers face worsening inequality without urgent reforms, UN agency warns
02 november 2025 - 12:40:11Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The world of work is undergoing rapid and destabilising change, with widening inequality and job insecurity [...] Full text...
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Defending truth-tellers, from war zones to the digital frontline
02 november 2025 - 07:43:10New York, US (PANA) - Journalists risk their lives every day to bring facts to light, yet most attacks against [...] Full text...
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Funding cuts undermining development, says top UN rights official
28 october 2025 - 05:14:59Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Sharp declines in global aid are undermining decades of human rights and development progress, the UN [...] Full text...
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Aid cuts shut down or suspend one in three women’s anti-violence programmes
27 october 2025 - 14:51:12New York, US (PANA) - Funding cuts are dismantling the frontline organisations working to end violence against women and girls, [...] Full text...
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Rights advocates say momentum builds for crimes against humanity treaty
27 october 2025 - 13:04:15New York, US (PANA) – Developing an effective International Convention to Prevent and Punish Crimes against Humanity will require ambitious [...] Full text...
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Head of UN mission in Libya discusses youth employment with young women
26 october 2025 - 04:34:09Tripoli, Libya (PANA) The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Libya, Hanna Tetteh, has joined 35 young women [...] Full text...
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Sixty-five nations sign first UN treaty to fight cybercrime, in milestone for digital cooperation
25 october 2025 - 12:06:02Hanoi, Viet Nam (PANA) - Sixty-five nations on Saturday signed a landmark United Nations treaty in Hanoi aimed at tackling [...] Full text...
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‘Let's finish the job’ and end polio: WHO
25 october 2025 - 05:58:17Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Thirty-five years ago, polio, a highly infectious viral disease, paralysed around 350,000 children per year. Following [...] Full text...
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UN chief Guterres calls for urgent reform of Security Council
24 october 2025 - 21:08:36New York, US (PANA) - Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday warned that the “fragile” legitimacy of the Security Council could [...] Full text...
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Parties to DRC, Rwanda peace agreement hold third Joint Security Coordination Mechanism meeting
23 october 2025 - 12:10:40Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Countries and organiations involved in the peace agreement between DRC and Rwanda have held the [...] Full text...
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Most major methane leak alerts ignored despite climate threat
22 october 2025 - 17:26:50Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UN satellite tracking has greatly improved detection of major methane leaks – a gas responsible for [...] Full text...
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Helping developing countries free themselves from the burden of debt
22 october 2025 - 16:48:32Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than three billion people worldwide live in economies forced to spend more on debt repayment [...] Full text...
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Finance changed, risks didn’t (By Yao Zeng for F&D Magazine, an assistant professor of finance and the Cynthia and Bennett Golub Faculty Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania)
22 october 2025 - 07:16:02Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - More than 15 years after the global financial crisis, the banking and financial system looks [...] Full text...
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$31 trillion debt is holding back developing countries, UN trade summit hears
20 october 2025 - 15:21:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Holding the line on the existing rules-based international trading system remains an essential challenge if the [...] Full text...
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‘No level of lead is safe’: WHO
18 october 2025 - 07:46:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Lead is found in many everyday products such as paint and cosmetics, but that doesn’t make [...] Full text...
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Rights group warns change of constitution in Chad threatens rule of law, democracy
17 october 2025 - 11:03:58Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Chad's new constitutional amendment abolishing presidential term limits is a serious setback for the rule of law [...] Full text...
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IMF Managing Director sets out priorities for a resilient global economy
17 october 2025 - 07:13:57Washington, DC, USA (PANA) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has called for increased efforts to spur [...] Full text...
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UN rights chief underlines need for a permanent ceasefire and accountability in Gaza
16 october 2025 - 07:50:16Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Recovery in Gaza must also include accountability for violations, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights [...] Full text...
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Global Economic Outlook shows modest change amid policy shifts and complex forces (IMF Blog by Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas)
15 october 2025 - 10:46:05Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - In April, the United States shook global trade norms by announcing sweeping tariffs. Given the [...] Full text...
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'World falling behind on its clean energy goals' - Report
15 october 2025 - 08:19:21New York, US (PANA) - A new report released on Tuesday warns the world is falling behind on its clean [...] Full text...
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Nations confront deep divisions over carbon emission cuts to global shipping
15 october 2025 - 08:12:40London, UK, (PANA) - The UN maritime agency opened a special session in London on Tuesday, where nations are debating [...] Full text...
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Opportunity in a time of change (IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva's curtain raiser speech for the 2025 World Bank, IMF Annual Meetings)
12 october 2025 - 11:56:40Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - As I look at the world over the decades, I see incredible progress, but also [...] Full text...
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Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis
11 october 2025 - 07:32:52New York, US (PANA) - Adults were in the back seat at UN Headquarters on Friday as girls and young [...] Full text...
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The Stablecoin Balancing Act (IMF article by Darrell, Odunayo Olowookere, Andreas Veneris)
09 october 2025 - 12:12:40Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Legend has it that gangster Al Capone hid the illicit origins of his wealth by [...] Full text...
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Spending smarter to boost growth (IMF Blog By Era Dabla-Norris, Davide Furceri, Zsuzsa Munkacsi, Galen She)
09 october 2025 - 10:03:26Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Over the past two decades, Rwanda achieved remarkable progress. Nearly every household now has [...] Full text...
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Good policies (and Good luck) helped emerging economies better resist shocks: IMF Blog By Marijn Bolhuis, Arindam Roy, Patrick Schneider, Zhao Zhang
07 october 2025 - 09:17:26Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Emerging market economies have held up remarkably well in recent years, even after periods of [...] Full text...
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UN World Court weighs in on right to strike
07 october 2025 - 07:53:26The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) - The International Court of Justice (ICJ) opened hearings on Monday to determine whether the right [...] Full text...
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Rights group hails first conviction of former Janjaweed militia in Sudan or serious crimes
07 october 2025 - 07:19:20The Hague, Netherlands (PANA) – The first International Criminal Court (ICC) conviction of a former leader of the Janjaweed militias [...] Full text...
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WHO: Despite smoking decline, tobacco still hooks one in five adults worldwide
07 october 2025 - 07:13:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Although there are fewer smokers now than 15 years ago, one in five adults worldwide is [...] Full text...
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We are not powerless in face of Gaza, West Bank, Ukraine atrocities, insists UNHCR chief
06 october 2025 - 15:54:38Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday took aim at the “deliberate abandonment” [...] Full text...
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Rights group stresses need to protect civilians
06 october 2025 - 07:11:00Gaza City , Gaza (PANA) – United States President Donald Trump’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” announced on 29 [...] Full text...
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Living in Space: UN celebrates innovation, cooperation and the final frontier (By Vibhu Mishra, UN News)
05 october 2025 - 06:48:31New York, US (PANA) - Humanity is looking up – and beyond. On Saturday, 4 October, World Space Week lifted [...] Full text...
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Parties to DRC, Rwanda peace agreement hold third meeting
03 october 2025 - 10:28:55Washington, D.C., US (PANA) - The Joint Oversight Committee for the Peace Agreement between DRC and Rwanda has convened its [...] Full text...
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Germany must deliver reparatory justice for its 'brutal' colonial past in Namibia - Amnesty International
02 october 2025 - 09:17:06Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - Human rights advocate, Amnesty International, said on Thursday that Germany must fully acknowledge its legal responsibility [...] Full text...
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Rights group says former DRC President Kabila’s trial exposes country's democratic crisis
02 october 2025 - 07:56:41Kinshasa, DRC (PANA) - A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) military court’s conviction and death sentence imposed on former President Joseph [...] Full text...
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Explainer: Five megatrends shaping the rise of nonbank finance (IMF Blog by Jay Surti)
29 september 2025 - 16:23:33Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The global financial crisis of 2008 froze the financial system. Banks pulled back credit, families [...] Full text...
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Fiscal rules foster stability as spending pressures grow (IMF Blog by Era Dabla-Norris, Raphael Lam, Francisco Roch)
28 september 2025 - 08:37:49Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Countries have increasingly adopted fiscal rules and frameworks that aim to give clarity and predictability [...] Full text...
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Fiscal rules foster stability as spending pressures grow (IMF Blog by Era Dabla-Norris, Raphael Lam, Francisco Roch)
26 september 2025 - 13:44:02Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Countries have increasingly adopted fiscal rules and frameworks that aim to give clarity and [...] Full text...
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Parties to DRC, Rwanda peace agreement meet
25 september 2025 - 06:26:58Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Parties to peace agreement between Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have held [...] Full text...
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AI must not decide humanity’s fate, UN chief warns Security Council
25 september 2025 - 04:53:22New York, US (PANA) - Artificial intelligence holds vast potential but poses grave risks if left unregulated, UN Secretary-General António [...] Full text...
thread Society
New national climate plans unveiled at high-level summit ahead of COP30 conference
25 september 2025 - 04:45:31New York, US (PANA) - From accelerating the move to clean energy to planting acres of trees, leaders from more [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Seventeen African govts commit to reforms, actionable plans to expand electricity
24 september 2025 - 18:24:50New York, US (PANA) - Seventeen African governments on Wednesday committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Troops ensure relative calm in Libyan city after armed clashes
24 september 2025 - 11:24:27Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Relative calm has returned to the Libyan city of Zaouia, 45 kms west of Tripoli, after [...] Full text...
thread Society
Climate Summit 2025: The path to COP30 (By UN News)
24 september 2025 - 05:50:57New York, US (PANA) - Floods in South Asia, wildfires across North America, and record-breaking heat in Europe have underscored [...] Full text...
thread Environment
World powers’ aggression, interference endangering global order: Angola's president
24 september 2025 - 04:45:41New York, US (PANA) - President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço of Angola on Tuesday warned that world powers’ aggression and [...] Full text...
thread Politics
UN’s Guterres to world leaders: Choose peace and cooperation over chaos
23 september 2025 - 15:28:55New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General opened the General Assembly high-level debate with a stark message: the world [...] Full text...
thread Politics
All 11 West Africans deported to Ghana from US sent back home -Lawyer
23 september 2025 - 12:19:35Accra, Ghana (PANA) - All 11 West Africans who had filed a legal action against the Ghana government to halt [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger withdraw from International Criminal Court
23 september 2025 - 10:30:36Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, 0n Monday announced their withdrawal from the Hague-based International Criminal [...] Full text...
thread Society
Why digitalisation for displaced people and host communities can’t wait (World Bank Blog by Ravi Shankar Chaturvedi, Global Practice Manager, Digital Economy & Society, Digital Vice Presidency; Johan Bjurman Bergman, Digital Development Specialist and Anne Schuchardt, Consultant, World Bank Digital Vice Presidency)
23 september 2025 - 08:49:58Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - For more than 120 million forcibly displaced people around the world, including refugees and [...] Full text...
thread Society
IOM chief calls for stronger cooperation on migration at UN General Assembly
23 september 2025 - 07:56:32New York, US (PANA) - As world leaders convene in New York for the High-Level Week of the 80th Session [...] Full text...
thread Society
WHO publishes new R&D landscape analyses highlighting gaps and inequities in cancer research
23 september 2025 - 06:35:22Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - WHO has released a new landscape analysis that exposes critical gaps in global research and development (R&D) [...] Full text...
thread Health
US/Africa expulsion deals flout rights, says rights advocate
23 september 2025 - 05:39:27Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – The United States' recent expulsions of third-country nationals to Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan [...] Full text...
thread Society
Stress tests can help determine how much capital Central Banks need (By Romain Veyrune, IMF)
22 september 2025 - 12:08:50Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Central banks pride themselves on being data-driven and consensus-based. Surprisingly, though, there is little consensus [...] Full text...
thread Economy
30 years advancing gender equality: Achievements, setbacks, and the road ahead (By UN News)
22 september 2025 - 06:39:35New York, US (PANA) - In the three decades since the groundbreaking Beijing Declaration on women’s rights was adopted by [...] Full text...
thread Gender
How the battle for control could crush AI’s promise
20 september 2025 - 10:39:57Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - A shift toward centralisation and concentration could snuff out technology’s productive potential, writes Carl Benedikt [...] Full text...
thread Sciences
New IMF Blog: Stress tests can help determine much capital central banks need by Romain Veyrune
19 september 2025 - 18:17:21Washington, DC USA (PANA) - Central banks pride themselves on being data-driven and consensus-based. Surprisingly, though, there is little consensus [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Global debt remains above 235% of world GDP
19 september 2025 - 09:26:48Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Decline in private lending offsets increase in public borrowing; notable differences persist across countries and [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Sunscreen restored to WHO essential medicines list hailed as lifeline for people with albinism
18 september 2025 - 05:22:13Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Independent UN experts have welcomed the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) decision to restore sunscreen to its [...] Full text...
thread Health
UN: World leaders should commit to human rights, international justice - HRW
17 september 2025 - 09:19:41New York, US (PANA) – World leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly from 22-30 September should commit to protecting [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Healing the ozone layer: ‘Guided by science, united in action’
17 september 2025 - 05:01:58New York, US (PANA) - Every year on 16 September, the UN celebrates the international community’s success in healing the [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Rights group urges South Sudan authorities to ensure due process, fair trials of opposition leaders
16 september 2025 - 13:13:39Juba, South Sudan (PANA)) – South Sudanese authorities should uphold due process for the opposition leader and First Vice President [...] Full text...
thread Politics
UN Women calls for political will and accelerated global action
16 september 2025 - 06:50:01New York, US (PANA) - More than 351 million women and girls could still be living in extreme poverty by [...] Full text...
thread Gender
South Africa marks National Albinism Awareness Month
16 september 2025 - 06:34:46Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities on Monday marked National [...] Full text...
thread Society
DR Congo: Militias, army threaten South Kivu civilians
16 september 2025 - 06:31:04Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – DR Congo (DRC) military forces and a coalition of abusive militias are threatening the security of civilians [...] Full text...
thread Society
States should uphold ban treaty on cluster munitions
16 september 2025 - 06:22:35Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) – Governments should reinforce the global ban on cluster munitions and call upon those still using or [...] Full text...
thread Society
Embracing climate-smart growth is a net win for Uganda
12 september 2025 - 09:59:54Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Without strong action, climate change could cut Uganda's economic growth by up to 3.1% by 2050, [...] Full text...
thread Environment
What is South-South cooperation, and can it be the gateway to a fairer world? (By UN News)
12 september 2025 - 07:23:35New York, US (PANA) - Although developing countries often look to do deals with wealthy nations in order to help [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Rights group warns acid spill in Zambia's copperbelt jeopardises residents’ health
11 september 2025 - 11:26:37Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – A human rights watchdog on Thursday urged the Zambian authorities to address recent reports that [...] Full text...
thread Health
‘Shift the narrative’ on suicide to prevent loss of 720,000 lives annually
11 september 2025 - 05:39:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than 720,000 people commit suicide every year and many more attempt it. Now the head [...] Full text...
thread Health
Nearly 80 million more children benefiting from school meals: WFP
11 september 2025 - 05:30:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - School meals are a crucial way out of poverty into “a new world of learning and opportunity”, according [...] Full text...
thread Society
‘No ordinary session’: Baerbock opens UN General Assembly with call for courage and reform
10 september 2025 - 08:01:15New York, US (PANA) - As the UN General Assembly opened its 80th session on Tuesday, new President Annalena Baerbock [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Child obesity level surpasses underweight cases worldwide for the first time, UNICEF warns
10 september 2025 - 07:45:15New York, US (PANA) - For the first time in history, obesity has surpassed those underweight as the most common [...] Full text...
thread Health
Peacekeeping: A lifeline for millions seeking a ‘future without fear’
09 september 2025 - 21:33:28New York, US (PANA) - With a record number of active conflicts worldwide, the Security Council met on Tuesday to [...] Full text...
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AUC chief rallies Africans to work together to build continent
09 september 2025 - 11:33:21Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), has rallied Africans to [...] Full text...
thread Politics
UN rights chief denounces ‘glorification of violence’ and attack on rule of law
08 september 2025 - 13:15:10Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - UN rights chief Volker Türk on Monday condemned what he called a worldwide “glorification of violence” [...] Full text...
thread Society
Three years ago, Finance & Development devoted a full issue to anticipating “The Money Revolution,” driven by innovations in finance, such as crypto assets. That revolution, writes F&D editor-in-chief Gita Bhatt, is now unfolding
08 september 2025 - 10:48:33Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The September issue of F&D looks at the new frontiers of finance, where technology, [...] Full text...
thread Economy
How stablecoins and other financial innovations may reshape the global economy (By Gitab Bhatt of IMF)
05 september 2025 - 13:30:33Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Three years ago, Finance & Development devoted a full issue to anticipating “The Money Revolution,” [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Technology, payments, and the rise of stablecoins (By Gita Bhatt F&D Editor-in-Chief)
04 september 2025 - 10:08:28Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Technology, data, and changing societal values are reshaping how people and institutions move money [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Protecting nature boosts growth and jobs, shows new report
04 september 2025 - 10:05:38Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Ninety percent of the world lives with either degraded land, unhealthy air, or water stress, [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Oversight c'ttee on Rwanda, DRC peace deal resolve to timely implementation
04 september 2025 - 08:39:12Washington, DC, US (PANA) - Members of the Joint Oversight Committee (JOC) for the Peace Agreement signed by Rwanda and [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Funding cuts hampering the work of the Human Rights Council, says President
04 september 2025 - 07:50:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Human Rights Council is set to meet on Monday in Geneva – an opportunity for [...] Full text...
thread Society
Dozens of countries lag on climate reporting, warns UN climate chief
04 september 2025 - 07:32:56New York, US (PANA) - UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell has warned that 37 countries have yet to [...] Full text...
thread Environment
‘Reparatory justice’ key to ending racism against Africans and their descendants
04 september 2025 - 07:23:05Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Governments, academia and other stakeholders must “double down on delivering reparatory justice” for people from the [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Funding cuts could push 6 million more children out of school, warns UNICEF
03 september 2025 - 06:34:17New York, US (PANA) - Global education funding is facing sharp reductions that could leave an extra six million children [...] Full text...
thread Society
WHO sounds alarm as mental health conditions soar past one billion worldwide
02 september 2025 - 16:27:49Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than a billion people worldwide are living with mental health conditions, according to new data released [...] Full text...
thread Health
New AfDB President Ould Tah takes office
01 september 2025 - 19:21:23Adidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - Dr. Sidi Ould Tah was on Monday sworn-in as the ninth President of the African [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Sudan's paramilitary RSF installs parallel government despite international rejection
31 august 2025 - 13:58:48Nyala, Sudan (PANA) – Despite the rejection and condemnation by the international community of the declaration by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid [...] Full text...
thread Politics
African health ministers call for urgent action as progress against malaria stalls
30 august 2025 - 08:48:38Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Progress against malaria in the African region has significantly slowed down, with cases declining by just [...] Full text...
thread Health
UN chief warns against ‘playing with fire’ as nuclear test threat looms
30 august 2025 - 07:38:58New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guteres has issued a stark warning on the International Day against Nuclear [...] Full text...
thread Society
US dollar remains central to global economy despite search for alternatives (Blog by Mouhamado Sy, senior economist in the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department)
27 august 2025 - 13:24:13Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - How has the US dollar dominated the global financial system for so long? Harvard [...] Full text...
thread Economy
UN chief discusses situation in besieged Sudan city with PM
27 august 2025 - 09:32:27Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) – The UN Secretary General Antony Guterres has had a telephone conversation with Sudanese Prime Minister [...] Full text...
thread Politics
African health ministers endorse framework to accelerate progress on oral health
26 august 2025 - 06:40:44Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - African ministers of health gathering for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa on [...] Full text...
thread Health
African health ministers endorse framework to accelerate progress on oral health
26 august 2025 - 06:26:05Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - African ministers of health gathering for the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa on [...] Full text...
thread Health
Sudan govt welcomes UN rights agency's condemnation of attacks on civilians by rival RSF
24 august 2025 - 06:56:35Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan on Saturday commended the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights for condemning the [...] Full text...
thread Society
UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
24 august 2025 - 06:28:04Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Extreme heat is fast becoming one of the biggest threats to workers’ health and livelihoods, the [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief
22 august 2025 - 19:07:15Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, [...] Full text...
thread Society
Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief
22 august 2025 - 14:37:24New York, US (PANA) - More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread [...] Full text...
thread Society
Reclaiming a policy role for economists (IMF Blog by Karen Dynan, Professor of Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics)
22 august 2025 - 11:58:55Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - Acknowledging missteps, listening well, defending data, and avoiding jargon will help the profession engageEconomists have [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Libya: Security Council urged to back popular ‘yearning’ for national elections
22 august 2025 - 05:37:57New York, US (PANA) - Recent elections in Libya are a sure sign of the people’s desire to choose their [...] Full text...
thread Politics
WHO, WMO issue new report and guidance to protect workers from increasing heat stress
21 august 2025 - 20:31:52(Embargoed until 08:00 AM CEST / 06:00 AM GMT on Friday, 22 August 2025)Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The World Health [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Sudanese army denies targeting WFP relief convoy
21 august 2025 - 12:20:49Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday denied bombing a World Food Programme (WFP) relief [...] Full text...
thread Society
International Day honours victims of terrorism
21 august 2025 - 06:41:35New York, US (PANA) - Thursday, 21 August, marks the eighth commemoration of the International Day of Remembrance of and [...] Full text...
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International coalition urges Sudanese warring parties to take action to improve humanitarian situation
20 august 2025 - 21:24:50Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - An international coalition that groups five governments beside the United Nations and the African Union [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Rights group accuses M23 rebels of mass killings near DRC's Virunga National Park
20 august 2025 - 10:46:08Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Rwandan-controlled M23 armed group summarily executed over 140 civilians, largely ethnic Hutu, in at least [...] Full text...
thread Society
World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own
19 august 2025 - 11:37:34Gaza City, Gaza (PANA) - With the news on Tuesday that a record 383 aid workers were confirmed killed in [...] Full text...
thread Society
State funeral held for Ghana helicopter crash victims; last six buried
15 august 2025 - 15:07:24Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama on Friday led a State funeral for eight people, including two [...] Full text...
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US forensic experts to help Ghana on military helicopter crash
14 august 2025 - 20:15:59Accra, Ghana (PANA - The Ghana government has officially invited US forensic experts to assist in the investigation into the [...] Full text...
thread Society
Guinea introduces malaria vaccine into routine immunization
14 august 2025 - 13:27:50Conakry, Guinea (PANA) – Under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, and with the support of [...] Full text...
thread Health
Second batch of women community leaders in Lbya pass out from UN Programme
14 august 2025 - 11:47:43Tripoli, Libya (PANA )- Thirty-four young Libyan women have graduated from the UN’s "Ra'edat" (Trailblazers) training programme in Libya.Coming from [...] Full text...
thread Gender
Amnesty International says thousands killed, hundreds forcibly disappeared in two years in south-east Nigeria
13 august 2025 - 08:49:23Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian authorities’ persistent failure to address the security crisis in the country’s south-east region has [...] Full text...
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Saddam Haftar appointed deputy commander of eastern-based Libyan Army General Command
12 august 2025 - 11:50:54Benghazi, Libya (PANA)- The commander of the eastern-bsed Libyan National Army's General Command, Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has appointed Lieutenant General [...] Full text...
thread Politics
Human Rights Watch condemns dissolution of Niger's justice sector unions
12 august 2025 - 06:56:35Nairobi,Kenya (PANA) - Human Rights Watch has condemned the dissolution of four main justice-sector unions by the military junta in [...] Full text...
thread Society
Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities
10 august 2025 - 08:16:37New York, US (PANA) - In honour of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August, the [...] Full text...
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Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
09 august 2025 - 11:08:37Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or [...] Full text...
thread Health
Erasure or empowerment? In Africa’s Sahel, women confront a stark choice
07 august 2025 - 20:29:34New York, US (PANA) - In Africa’s Sahel region, deepening violence and poverty – driven by displacement, hunger and terrorism [...] Full text...
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Landlocked nations ‘invisible to much of the world’: UN trade and development chief (By UN News)
07 august 2025 - 05:34:26Awaza, Turkmenistan (PANA) - Trapped by geography and squeezed by global market forces, the world’s 32 landlocked developing countries remain [...] Full text...
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A Moving History: IMF Finance & Development (By Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University)
06 august 2025 - 10:46:10Washington, DC, USA (PANA) - The history of migration is the story of humanity and its progress. It’s a story [...] Full text...
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Libyan Prime Minister welcomes BCL decision to grant licences to official currency exchange offices
05 august 2025 - 16:26:45Tripoli, Libya (PANA) -The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al-Dbaiba, says the granting of licences [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Malian PM attends 3rd Conference on Landlocked Countries in Turkmenistan
05 august 2025 - 12:00:54Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian Prime Minister Major General Abdoulaye Maïga is taking part in the 3rd United Nations Conference [...] Full text...
thread Politics
WHO consultations bring urgency, hope to health worker migration crisis
05 august 2025 - 11:11:26Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – When health experts across the World Health Organisation (WHO) African region, logged into the virtual WHO [...] Full text...
thread Health
Gates Foundation announces catalytic funding to spark new era of women-centered research and Innovation
05 august 2025 - 10:02:53Seattle, US (PANA) - The Gates Foundation has announced a $2.5 billion commitment through 2030 to accelerate research and development [...] Full text...
thread Health
Negotiations for global plastics treaty resume on Tuesday
05 august 2025 - 05:47:14Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Negotiations on a global plastics treaty resume in Geneva on Tuesday after previous talks stalled amid [...] Full text...
thread Environment
Sudanese Darfur group claims mercenaries fighting alongside militias
04 august 2025 - 12:19:39Port Sudan, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Joint Force of the Armed Struggle Movements (The Joint Force) has claimed that [...] Full text...
thread Politics
World Breastfeeding Week: Invest in health systems and policies to benefit mums and babies - WHO
02 august 2025 - 05:32:39Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Friday, 1 August, marked the start of World Breastfeeding Week and this year’s theme calls for [...] Full text...
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New Standards for Economic Data Aim to Sharpen View of Global Economy (IMF Blog by Vladimir Klyuev, James Tebrake)
01 august 2025 - 08:38:55Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - The updated System of National Accounts better captures digitalisation, intangible assets, and global production—helping [...] Full text...
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Human trafficking: Senegal to strengthen legal framework, improve cross-border cooperation (By Minielle Baro, United Nations Information Centre, Dakar)
01 august 2025 - 05:50:57Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - In response to the scourge of human trafficking, Senegal has adopted a solid legal framework, the [...] Full text...
thread Society
UN chief appoints experts to help countries create tax policies that advance sustainable development
31 july 2025 - 05:25:34New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed 25 experts to a UN committee to help countries [...] Full text...
thread Economy
Libya: 6+6 Commission and Advisory Committee on constitutional framework for elections holds meeting
30 july 2025 - 12:32:12Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya's 6+6 Commission and the Advisory Committee met on Tuesday to exchange ideas on possible amendments [...] Full text...
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Deputy UN chief urges bold action to transform food systems at global summit in Addis Ababa
30 july 2025 - 07:10:18Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed on Tuesday called on countries to double down on [...] Full text...
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US' plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable, says medical charity
30 july 2025 - 06:40:00Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States government’s plan to destroy US$9.7 million worth of contraceptives is a callous [...] Full text...
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